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"I have searched the house high and low," said the voice of another stout gentleman, who now pushed his way into the room; "and I can find nothing but a sick cat up in the garret." "Ay, ay, Brother Bulrush, ay, ay!" replied the clergyman; "ay, ay, it is all explained. It is all that Messenger's fault, and he has now run away again.
The silks were largely used by the Roman ladies. The coverlets, which were patterned with various colors, fetched enormous prices, and were regarded as fit adornments of the Imperial palace. Among the spices exported, the most celebrated wore bdellium, and the juncus odoratus or odoriferous bulrush. The Parthians had many liberal usages which imply a fairly advanced civilization.
Jeffreys, who is a motherly sort of woman, will be quite delighted to take care of her ladyship." "Or Lady Bulrush either, I am sure," said the other magistrate. "The manor-house is but half a mile."
The song she had sung, floating through the air, had seemed familiar to him, while he had been greatly engaged with a big business thing he had been planning for a long time, with Jesse Bulrush in the background or foreground, as scout or rear- guard or what you will: "'Whereaway, whereaway goes the lad that once was mine? Hereaway, I waited him, hereaway and oft "
Crozier had commanded Jesse not to approach them, but the fat idealist had an idea that his tongue had a gift of wheedling, and he believed that he could make them "shell out," as he put it. He had failed, and he was obliged to say so, when Crozier, suspecting, brought him to book. "They mean to crowd you out that's their game," Bulrush had said. "They've closed up all the ways to cash or credit.
Crozier had commanded Jesse not to approach them, but the fat idealist had an idea that his tongue had a gift of wheedling, and he believed that he could make them "shell out," as he put it. He had failed, and he was obliged to say so, when Crozier, suspecting, brought him to book. "They mean to crowd you out that's their game," Bulrush had said. "They've closed up all the ways to cash or credit.
Her mother was coming hurriedly towards her from the house. There was a quickness in her walk suggesting excitement, yet from the look in her face it was plain that the news she brought was not painful. "He told me you were here, and " "Who told you I was here?" "Mr. Bulrush." "So it's all settled," she said, with a little quirk of her shoulders.
Amongst other plants used for a similar purpose were the bulrush and reed, in connection with-which may be quoted the Irish tale of the rushes and cornstalks that "turn into horses the moment you bestride them ." In Germany witches were said to use hay for transporting themselves through the air.
Second visit to Zage Arrest of Mr. Rassam and the English Officers Charges brought against Mr. Rassam The former Captives are brought in Chains to Zage Public Trial Reconciliation Mr. Flad's Departure The Imprisonment at Zage Departure for Kourata. On the 13th of April we made our third experiment of the bulrush boats, as the Emperor desired once more to see his dear friends before they left.
And this I succeeded in doing, discovering one piping from the top of a bulrush, to which he clung like a sailor to a mast; I finally allayed the fears of one I had captured till he sat in the palm of my hand and piped a feat I have never been able to repeat since. I studied the ways of the bumblebees also, and had names of my own for all the different kinds.
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